ORDINANCE NO. 980403

Authorizing the Director of Public Works to enter into an agreement with the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority to provide regular transit services and Share-A-Fare transportation for the elderly and the disabled residents of Kansas City for an amount not to exceed $26,106,596.00 from funds to be appropriated in the 1998-99 City Budget.

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

Section 1. To authorize the Director of Public Works to enter into an agreement with the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority to provide regular transit services to Kansas City residents and Share-A-Fare transportation services for elderly persons and persons with disabilities, who are residents of Kansas City, for the period of May 1, 1998 through April 30, 1998, for an amount not to exceed $26,106,596.00 from funds to be appropriated to the following accounts in the Public Mass Transportation Fund in the 1998-99 Budget and not to exceed the amount of funds so budgeted:

99-208-069-2000-F KCATA-Operations $24,139,030.00

99-208-069-2100-F Share-A Fare Program 1,967,566.00

TOTAL $26,106,596.00

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I hereby certify that there is a balance, otherwise unencumbered, to the credit of the appropriation to which the foregoing expenditure is to be charged, and a cash balance, otherwise unencumbered, in the treasury, to the credit of the fund from which payment is to be made, each sufficient to meet the obligation hereby incurred.

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Director of Finance

Approved as to form and legality:

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Assistant City Attorney